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MAILS. , . Ake ;v sn—z Dublin. t Waterford. t'Brazils. Piz-3Gottenburgh, i M4lta, i Wittsrto;d. PRICE OF STOCK $ THIS PA y AT TINILY L O'CLOCK. Consols . • r. 661 I o,mnion't s TFI E N? lOLIM et/111 l'41.111)161 AIIDZAT LONDON, 71UDAY, JANtY4RY 13, I so. The Twentieth Bulletin of the French Army has ten receive in town, but the intelligence it con- tgins is, except in one point of of very little importance.—lt it: dated Madrid, the 19th ult. 'i t et that time BUONAPAKTE, with the whole of hii army, was at Madrid, and in the envircins of that capit-,41, anti he expresses in the Bulletin, his intention of giving his troops some days rest, after the extraor . dinary fatigues they had undergone. The interest which would otherwise belong to this Delletin is considerably diminished by the accounts received from Sir J. Mamie, of the subsegile - nt moyements of the french ; but it is important and satisfaCtory to know, that as late as the oth no part of the French Army had began to march from Madrid, and there is every reason to believe that they did not commence their march (at least the infantry) till the 4.)3.d. The knowledge of this fact is sufficient to remove the ap- prelicilsior4 which have. been expressed by some of our contemporaries, for the safety of Sir Jomi Mootte's Army. There can be no doubt that Sir JOHN had the start of BUONAPAR rv. by six days, and of SOUta by four days, and therefore it is almost imposiible that either of their Armies can come up with lam. BLIONAPAIiTB, by pushing forward his cavalry, endeavoured as much as possible to impede our march, and it they had succeeded in breaking through our Rear Quarci,.. thie cunse- leueOs might have been serious;, but the recep. tiara they mot with will not, we should think, en- courage ththn to renew their attempts. If BuoNA- ?Mall Should follow thF. British Army to the Coast, the ciinsequenc will be, that it will disable him from making any attack upon the South of Spain kefore the latter end of February or the beginning of aid 11 will„ as we before observed, Ore the spnniartli ample time to arrang& their plan ciwiefice. It was last night reported that a Gun-brig had arrived from Gottenburgh, with intelligence that the IChlg of Sweden bad been compelled, at List, to shut his Ports against British Ships. We believe there is no foundation for this report, as Govern fluent havellot received any such intelligence. We have extracted from the Madrid Gazettes to It l ate date, which reached Town last night, the terms of the Capitulation of the City of Viadi id. It is ob vious from the facility with which BUONAPARTZ arced to the terms proposed, that he conceived the Inhabitants capable of making a formidable resis wee ; and it does, we confess, appear to 44 strange, d i st with tho mean, of defi.i►tce which they evidently possessed, that they 1111061 so soon have submitted. ileeontits which have since reached this COUll tfy respe4ing General Moat,A, may, indeed, in wine measure ACM44t for it ; but still it is strange, that the other Leaders should have concurred with lei►hh in giving, up the capital without a struggle. THE LAITTCRY.—Thig morning the Gentlemen who intended to Lid for the next I.,(ittery attended at the Treasury at eleven o'clock, when the following Irnposals were made: i,. flonsley and Co. i 7 itichardaon and Co, • - • 17 5 a {.`.,pa and Co. - - 1 7 s o Ilranicarnb and Co, 5 4 Towgoott and Co. w 7. A. Q of cqurse MOWS. frE NBl.B Y and Co, were de arna the purchasers.—The PrJwing is tOtae,.completed la four days, the last • of which is : AM' There are to he a tho'asand ',Pickett! reserved far Prizes, as in the last Lottery. '('fits leading Print of Opposition made an attack vim 'l'll 4 Sur yesterday, because we had accused than - I'cl a,parti,3lity to Sir sl:ontl Monne. The par- . tiality is so manifeq, that every Reader of the Pa-, per alluded to must be surprised that it should make she, sitzlitest attempt Oa tlisavow it.. But thongh we noticed that pattiality, we allonid of have cost» dernned it, if it had not begs er:upl2(l with ati at tett-44w degrade, otlier British Officers, by suggesting invidious comparisena between sir Jonst Ittoorte and them, in Order to exalt his charatter at their expence, This attempt was particulaily observable with respe4 to Sir Arepun WEr,r.sst.av, Whose Military Charader and Achievements have been hu mped, while the talents and coodua of Sir Joni; Moons have been painted in the most glowing coleurs. The merits of Sir JoIIN MOORE are as much esteem ed by us as they can be by these who are Constantly plaistering him with panegyric ; but, to use the words of the Paper in question, "r the charafters of its distinguished Generals are the property of the Country," and we cpnceive that we sheuld neglcd our public duty if we saw one of those Generals il liberally depreciated, in order to elevate the reputa tioo'of another. If Sir .on Moons bad been in exactly the same situation with Sir Ateriturt Wer.Las- LitY, respeCtiog the Convention of Citura, we have not the leaSt doubt that the Opposition Paper would have adopted a very different condo& from what it did towards the latter, and that instead of 'such bitter ac cusations and rancorous rettedions as were cast upon that gallant Officer every day, we - should have been told that Sir .101fN ,MOORE, though acting in pre cisely the same manner, was knitted to the praise and gratitude of his Country. There can •be no doubt that Sir JOHN MOORE will do his duty in Spain with real and ability, but if he were to do . otherwise, we are persuaded • that he would have no reason to fear censure in the qu.irter alluded to; and, to repeat the passage which seems to have given . great offence; that the 'Writers in question would be satisfied with 'his reasons, " however it might fare with Sir DAVID Bailin." But the Opposition Paper has presumed. to say that Ministers have direded the public Prints in their , in terest " to insinuate, to sneer, and to speculate away the charader of a man who is the ornament of the army which he leads," This is an accusation founded in falsehood and illiberality Ministers, we are sure, would disdain to give any such direc tions, and if they did, we, should disdain obedience to them. But the Opposition Writers, and particu larly those in the Print to which we allude have done much more than " to insinuate, to sneer, and to speculate away the charader" of Sir ARTHUR WEL. LESLEY, whom we may fairly say, withont resorting to the invidious comparisons of the Party. Prints, is not less " the ornainent of the army" which he led to a conquest in the highest degree honourable to his country, however subsequent events . might have disappointed the hopes of the public. We have but a few More Words to say: let the Opposition Writers do justice to other British Officers, Sad net attempt " to insinuate, to sneer, and to spectaate away" their charaters, and we shall never quarrel with them for their partiality to Sir JOHN MOORR. On Monday, a meeting of the Privy Council took place at the Council Office, which was attended by 111A5Tett Ol" the DULLS,` Sir EVAN NEPEAN, and Mr. DUNDAS, Upon' Plantation APp 6 / 1 1S. , Their Lordships' attention was principally canted to, the cause of Sir WILLIAM YoUNG, v. Si‘EwArr, and Someon THe !Lava INDIA COMPANY.' The pm ceeding3 of their Lordships were, aajoimied sine die upon the first cause, and the latter was adjOnnted ' lp next Monday. Yesterday the Princesses honottred• Lady CHAR* . LOTTK FINCH with a visit, at her apartments in St. Jamen Palace. Yesterday the jewels belonging to her MAJEsTY and the Pittscfnisp,s were removed from the Bank,, in consequence of I heir having removed to the CueEN's Palace fin the season. Yesterday the Duke of MONTROSE, as Master of the Llorie M . A./P.511Y, itispe6ted the .horses, carriages, &c. at the King's Mews, • Charing-cross, &c. Sir 'fitostAs Mee arrived in town '.tan Marley last from Oviedo. This Gentleman, who has al ways been sanguine in the hope that the Spaniards would finally triumph over their invaders, is, we understand, still of the same opinion. But though the military experience and local knowledge of this Gentleman are entitled to great respect, yet we con fess that we begin to doubt whether the Spaniards, at least in the North of Spain, really possess that energy and zeal which the magnitude of their danger detnands, and will not at last submit to the Gallic hordes, whom, if they were themselves united and animated by a proper Spirit,. they might soon over. wirelm i ' notwithstanding their own comparative want of military knowledge and experience.. We have seen a letter received by a merchant in the City, which came by the last arrival frotu Cadiz; it says, that Count Vt.ortipit 14ANCA is dangerously r I On Monday the Iris Frigate sailed for Spain with General. MU It IT A Y act Colonel' WA k.K ZIT YeSterday morning, about nine o'clock, the fa. neral procession of the late Marquis of Sligo began from his house iii Grafton -street, to proceed towards Ireland. The coffin was covered with crimson vet ornamented with gold.. The [lon. Dennis Brown arrived in town from Ireland, ht the home of his late brother, the Marquis, at eight ;o'clock Yesterday mottling. After an hour's rest he pro ceeded with the remains cif his Noble Brother. ..rhe coffin was, as usual, ornamented ith the crown and cushion, &c. bearing his rank, Four motirning poaches, and a number of Noblemen and Gentle. men's carriages followed ae far as Dunstable. Thu corpse and attendants proceeded on their way to wards Eloly head. ypon their arrival there It Moil is to be in readiness to convey them to Ireland. 'Orr their arrival in that country-they are to be met by the yeomen tuid tenantry, of the late Marquis, to the number of one thousand, to. convey the cotpse teD he famil tomb.' his Mtatt'sly'a ship Oui.t,' 4Att.t4.74leet *id tg. yoy, froth Portsmouth; arrived itr itifiltikeirtoon the 17111 of OCtobr. ECOND E,DITION. SUN-OFRICE, HALF PAST TWO O'CLOCK, P. V. • 'lVe stop thg Press to communicate to our Leaders some forther par►iculars respe6ling the loth which reached town this morning. It states, that ratioles of French Cavalry .had pushed on as far as Valladolid, on the one 8419, and to the Frontiers of Andalusia on the other. It also states, that the Carps which had advanced to Talavera was still at that place ; and adds, that the Cavalry had at length discovered the existence of the English, who had remained in so extraordi• nary a manner immoveable at Salamanca ; but it does not state how very dearly the French ca valry had paid for their discovery. The Bulletin concludes with suiting that the sth division had reached Burgos. NAVAL N EWS. PLYMOUTH, JAN. I.—Arrived the Brig. James, of Newcastle, RICHARD ALLEN, Master, from 'Que bec, laden with timber for the Dock-yard : she was captured on the Ist inst. by a French Brig Privateer; pf 18 guns, who brought her to, and•obliged her to strike, her colours; ,but the• Privateer's crew being busy in exchanging' prisoners with a large English Ship and Brig which she bad just before captured, and night coming on, the James made sail, altered her course, and by that means escaped. Arrived the America, Capt. CoLaung, from New Brunswick, with masts for the Docklard. FALMOUTH; JAN. 10..-.."AreiVed FES Majesty's Ships Resistance and Scorpion from eruize ; and the Princess ,Elizateth Packet, Capt. TCASDALE, with Mails, (rain the Brazils, in 72 days ; Liebe Transport, HMS, with Troops, fur Spain ; and the Providence, MARSTON, for Malta, having parted from the convoy, being leaky. PORTSMOUTII, JAN. 12.—Arrived his Majesty's Ship Galatea front the West Indies. His Majesty's,' Ship Britomart is appointed, con voy for the Brazils, the Cape of Good of lioPe, &c. Arrived the Maria, NORCOTT, from Bristol, and the Hope, SJIANKLAI3I), fromCartnarthen. SHEERNESS, JAN. !I.—Came clown from Chat• ham and anchored at the Great Nbre, his Majesty's Ship Sirius, Capt. Prm. JAN. 12.—Sailed the &timer gun -brig, lot Yar mouth; Bold, fur the Downs; and Vesuvius, for Woolwich. LOSS OF THE BANTERER SLOOP pt WAR. " River St. Lawrence, Nov. as, iSoS. • " I fear the news of the loss of the Ranh:7.er will reach you before this, and that, your mind will su ff er accordingly, as believe was known at Quebec before the, otstivoy for gngland had sailed. I there fore,rejoice in this unexpgpted opportunity to inform you, that the loss of the . Shiptwas Unattended by the loss of lives, the whole of the,erest , being 'saved ; we have also saved most of our property.,,but the Ship is totally lost. We have undergone some hard ships, as you will easily conceive, from living in the woods of . this Country, at this season of the year, from the 49th of October to this day, on which we happily embarked in a Transport, bound direct for Halifax. As the oppprttfnity is bat for a mu- went,' many of the ()Ulcers have not been able to take advantage of it. I therefore wish you. would contrive to communicate this to some of the Editors of the PUblic Papers, which May prevent much anxiety. ",Wtt.t.tax Oott.vm, First Lieut." Copy of a Letter from Captain R. T. Dtmt.t.t., Of the merchant ship Spanish . Patriut, bound from Cadiz to London, 'addressed to hl4 Owner, dated Downs, i ith " Last evening, at six,,A. M. Beaehy Head' bear ing East lialF South, by Compass, distance tour leagues, we saw the dash of several guns, and heard the reports, and supposed that some Privateers were not far off, I hauled in from E.-S. E. to East, to avoid them, and at the same time prepared for anion, should it be necessary. About Seven, P. M. we ddis covered a large logger arming in under our,lee. hails him several times, but could get no answer. Finding his intentions were to board, I,prepared ac cordingly, and, as soon as he came along-side, we gave him this whole broadside loaded with round end grape—his main-yard fell down, and they sung oat lustily. However, he wore immediately, and I wore likewise, and, before be could get any distance,. we fired 16 guns at him, all round and grape, and no doubt we must have killed numbers of rhern,..;. There. was another small Privateer in sight at the same time, but she made oil: The above 'Privateer was tip Radaer, Ipsatis Dam!, captain, of three and four pounders, d 7 men on board, 15 hours frotuDieppe, and had a few bourn before - taken the Vniun, of Guernsey, bound to Shields, its bal-' last, which vessel was in company at the titne,, and we retie* her from him. Luckily, part of the.crew of the.trig remained on .board, and"! Wye taken part of the .14enchmen out, and rut prize -master ou board the Brig, who is in company, The 'Brig WU firm, of Poole, and seveial'erharsthat were in sight, no doubt, would NW been take n ,' bad We nut 4 - :ved the Frenchman such a dose." Sill JOHN MOORE. 7 r T tis. General, it appears, was sent into Spain with cvery..consit,ierable British force, which was to ad as an att*i•liafy artily to the Spaniards, or as an army of reserve, upon which the Spanish armies, should they find thotseives inferior to the French, might fall•back,'"or With which they tn:ght unite and rally. And, if this plan had been attended to and followed by the Spanish Generals, the event of the campaign, upon Buonlparte's entering the Peninsula, might have been different. Unfortunately the Spanish Councils, or the decisions of:the Spanish Generals, by committing their armies seperately against the enemy, have defeated this plan. • IYl)ep Sir John Moore colle6leal his force at Sala• manca, and was enabled to join Sir David Baird, he had a right to expea that the Spanish armies, amounting to 100,000 men, would have so man aged and mancauvered, as that if they had 'been obliged to retire before the enemy, they would have retired as armies ; but they is Nett enabled to reassemble in 'regular bailee, ard that at least the , centre and left would have fallen back, so as to con nest themselves with his army. Instead of which, the three Spanish armies sutfered themseltais to be attacked separately, one after another, and were not only defeated,, but dispersed. • As soon as Sir John .Mote received notice of the dispersion of the three armies, he.waa the most intricate situation at Salamanca. He conceived, and conceived upon true military principles, that as soon' as Buonaparte had defeated Castanos, he would aft as he had almost always aefed, according to those. principles, and that before he would proceed to the capital and elongate his line of operation, he would attack and endeavour to defeat the only remaining corps which bad any thing•like the consistency of au army, or could at.l on his rear and communications. He imagined, with a true military mind, that lino-. naparte, instead of marching to Madrid, would con' centrate his whole force against him and Sir D. Baird, before they could be so united as to establish themselves and form a system of operation. It was certainly possible for fluonapayte, instead, of marching on the Somo Sierra, to have erased the Burgos Road, and pressing op Vailadolicl A to have collected at least 00,000 men, 10,000, of them Ca valry, on Sir John Moore's army.' It was otiviotiSlY his interest to have done so ; and If be could then have defeated our corps, and forced it to retreat, Spain would have been left to her own resource*, only, depressed not only by the dispersion of her own armies, but the defeat of our's. Boonaparte6 vanity led Mini to make a false more, and Sir' Joh* Moore has taken the advantagerof it. When Sir J. Moore received the news Of the dis-, p`eriien ot . .castatids's army, he aecordinglY tor* tifeasureo4 retreating ; bUt as socin as li i e \ pard kW. Buonapacte had carried his m ai n arm y t o OM, Ott that Madrid resisted, lie imMediately took advatVe of this f a lse move ; and as the French armies were now separated, he endeavoured to net in the rear O. their main body, to cut off, if pussiblt, a detache4, division, and to force Buonaparte to , yalt Madrid,,," and his projeds unjust the South at Spam, operation (which ..04ttary,tromai call a , verstorq . lie hat esseceedesL.! ,litiortepsettc had thrown his advanced guard as far as Altnarekirs the road to Truxillo. This bas been precipitately recalled,, and be has marched into Gallicia blip* the whole of his army which was at Madrid, 44 begun at the Guadnmanus, towards Gallicia, and called also away the corps sent againt Saragossa. Now let Lis consider the effort of this movement,. There are accounts by General Lefebvre, that Buo-.. naparte'v main body of infantry did not quit the environs of Madrid till the 23.1 December; .how ever, his advanced cavalry arrived at Benevente on the 28th. Sir John Moore would be with his whole army within the passes of Villa Franca on the ed., Villa Franca ,is aho maelstrom Madrid; now it is impossible that an army of 35,000 men could march that space in winter, havintrio magazines, under to days, and his infantry and artillery could riot bav,e been at Villa'.Franca before the ath of 'January he pursued •Sir John Moore, and endeavoured to hal. rass and to attack him, he must enter the defiles 'of Gallicia, and Ulm.* himself into a country destitute of provisions, and where his progress could not be rapid : we might safely venture to assert, that were he to force Sir J. Moore to.re-embark, the opera tion would take him to the end . or Ja:iuttry ; anti then 'he Would have been obliged to bring his artily to the coast. 'Suppose Buonaparte obliged to go. tO. 'Vigo', and io be there at th e co d o r January. Vigo. is 35.0 miles from Madrid. If he then returna - to Madrid, for that is his best road, and tuarChes to Cadit., it will be4s,t) miles more; so amt. Sir J. Moore's operation has forced him to a march of 70n. miles, He has now a march from Vigo or Corimmi of 500 miles, to the Sierra Morena, and of 710 miles• to Cadiz. Supposing he leaves the neighbourhood of C(irtinna on the Ist of Feb. he could 'not march to the Sierra under six weeks, nor to CadiZ under two months. The Spaniards, instead of being obliged to defend the Sierra Morena in the middle of January, will boye time to prepare till ihe middle of March, and, the French could hot arrive at Cadiz, should the Sierra be forced, till the beginning of APril, hi. short, Sir John Moore's :movement will live- she Spaniards in the South an interval for preparation o( full three months. i t ,is gj ., reat .consideration, that. Buonaparte's ti'oenti'ibany 4il which had matched from tho North 01 Gerrpapy, 1.101 1600 mks, will now have to March 'root)* ingrehefore they can reach Cadiz, Ad. it .i s7 otriptts. to .every , military man s ilzu *l;tltlitl.opta;fattgue in winter hiaarnl may groot,t ly atittr. , • • In thepean time, the Sliabiards have received four minions and a hallo( dollars trot Vera Crui, end they, will receive from the 134m` port in February, eight millions more, besides Use sums that are ex- pelted from Buenos Ayres and Lima. Zf it:bi).tnis that Mcm LA has deserted the ptitrotic, Gain in Spain, helms e itived himself equatly tOolish and yelakeAliribr the Corsican will only deceive temporary, I keorary, and then' tutl• aigri him to the infamy which he deserves.--- Thil”-vaito betray their, Country tau never exppa nOtire j .:tzni EtIONArAKTIt 110$ enoug of 'his Own to prov , iiie lor, not likely to leave any think worth - having to a foteien Traitor,